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Over the holidays, I opted to try to teach myself Ruby & it’s companion Rails. Turns out, there are a great resources scattered about the web that can really help you drill down into rails and learn the nitty gritty details of how it all works. I spent my time with Rails & Zombies, than I opted to read through the Rails tutorial. Unfortunately the Rails tutorial is pretty bland so about half way through I decided to snoop around to see what my options where. Somehow, almost by chance I ended up a subscriber on Lynda. Lynda only has one Rails tutorial, but its pretty in depth and is backed by a five hour Ruby tutorial. Surprisingly I felt like although the Rails tutorial at Lynda was only 12 hours long, it had more content that most of the college courses I’ve taken. But promoting Lynda isn’t what this post is about. This post is about what happened when I actually tried to...